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These are the flakiest snowflakes I've seen. I grew up in Canada, lots of time outdoors with spider webs & snow flakes. Other things too. These flakes gotta be stamped out of paper - they are dense, non-reflective, thick. Not at all like the real thing.

I went up to Whistler to ski when it was snowing. As I went up the chairlift, I noticed tiny snowflakes collecting on my gloves so I took a closer look.

I had never seen such perfect, stereotypical snowflakes in my life. They were crystalline, symmetrical and honestly, extremely beautiful. But they were so tiny... it blew my mind to think that such tiny things could possess such flawless beauty.

I was so focused on these snowflakes that I forgot about the whole "get off the chairlift" thing.

Alaskan here. I don't know whether to laugh or cry at the number of people calling "fake." I feel like I just saw someone scream "WITCH!! WITCH!!" at a cashier because their order rang up as $6.66. It's funny at first, but then then you realize the screamer is serious and has lunged toward the poor service clerk, and shit gets downright scary. That people think this image must be fake because they have never seen certain types and shapes of snow and snowflakes, and that they don't know that different temperatures and atmospheric/weather conditions cause different types of snowflakes is somehow depressing to me.

Sometimes snow will be in little hexagons that almost look like someone made spider web pattern in ice.

Sometimes it will be round, and sometimes it will even arrive in clumps of lots of little round dots.

Sometimes it will be in long crystals that look almost like tiny straws.

Sometimes it will be in perfect, lacy designs, like the ones in this picture.

Sometimes the flakes will be so tiny and delicate it looks almost like feathers.

Sometimes you'll encounter little triangles, or what look like just parts of lacy snowflakes.

Sometimes they'll be in sharp, jagged lines, or be a mixture of different polygons.

Sometimes it will be a mixture of a few of these different kinds of shapes in the same snowfall.

Just because you haven't seen something before DOES NOT make it fake. I've taken photos like this before of snowflakes on my gloves or other dark surfaces. I don't think this photo is fake. Why fake something that's fairly common in a lot of the world? I can however appreciate that it might have been a difficult shot depending on where they were standing. Lovely lacy flakes like the ones in the picture melt so easily if you get to close to them or accidentally breath on them. Sometimes to get close enough to them to get their details even with a zoom lens, you have to hold your breath.

just another flake here... I looked at your link (good one!) and saw one photo (Rimed Snowflake) that was close to the OP's picture... yet was distinctly different in it's density and crystaline structure, especially around the edges. Other photos online again have same see-through structure, somewhere on them - the OP's flakes do not. Snowflake-1 and Snowflake-2 . Okay... now just for fun... if you were able to stamp snowflakes out of paper, they would look identical to the OP's photo.

How the fuck would they attach with two tips to the thread? Unlikely for them to start growing at both points and then merge perfectly, as unlikely to start growing on one side and then attach to a second point after they have grown big enough.

They aren't the size of dimes. They were very small. I live in Canada where it snowed today and just happened to see a couple stuck in a spider web. Like conwyt said, they reminded me of those snow flakes you cut out, so I took a picture and thought Reddit would appreciate it too. :)

Real snowflakes are: crystals, made of ice, translucent, reflective, dainty, see-through... The 2 in the picture look like they are stamped out of paper ( dense, non-reflective, kinda papery!). Do a google search in images. These are fake.

Not sure why people keep thinking it's fake because of the picture quality. It wasn't the best camera I could have used but it was the only one available. Maybe they would have looked shinier if it had been sunny, but it was overcast and snowing. Not sure if it's going to snow again(the snow from this morning has already melted), but I'd be glad to send you more when it does.

Appreciate your sincere reply.... but take a look online at Photographs of snow flakes. The difference is clear to me (and others it seems)... Its like the difference between a crystal goblet and a paper cup.

Most of the Google images of snowflakes are close micro shots. I'm sure the detailing on them would have been better if I had a camera suited for shots like that. There was also a line of spider web coming off the tree above and I only saw it because there were snowflakes on it. I didn't think that so many people would think this picture fake. To me it was cool to see that the snowflakes had caught so perfectly on the spider web, but I guess natures beauty has to be questioned by all. :P

In the area she lives it was pretty nice the previous day. I live in a town in the same area as OP and we also had snow this morning, it was kind of puffy wet snow. I'm not sure why you seem to think snow only ever looks one way. Spend a winter in any place it snows consistently during the season and you'd know that it can look different depending on the weather. there is the very light crystal like snow you describe and there's puffy snow like the one in the pic.

The snow crystals you speak of are visible only under a microscope. If this is real, the resemblance of these to their micro-crystal form might be because of the fractal nature of the whole process and again, if this is real, it is quite remarkable in that sense.

the real snowflakes are behind it on the black thing, if you could pick it up on a black glove and look REALLY close you'll see paterns similar to the snowflakes on the spider web except you'll never see them that big.